Did Google Remove The Swastika Symbol From Its Trends Report

Many news types pop on to Google Trends to see some of the hot words/phrases being searched on the massive engine in the last hour. Well... this morning the swastika symbol apparently appeared as the top search engine word/phrase. Could that many people have been searching for the symbol at the same time? That's a little hard to believe. But what has more people talking is that the symbol completely diappeared from the Trends report a short time later. Did someone at Google strike the entry? If so, it raises real questions about the accuracy of what we do see on that report every hour of every day. Is someone manipulating those results too?

The LA Times reports on several theories.
Various theories have been circulated about the provenance of the swastika on Google. The first, from a comments thread on Blogoscoped, was that someone on the underground message board 4Chan (the same net location that helped incubate the anti-Scientology group Anonymous) had posted the HTML code for the swastika in the morning, after which "thousand of people googled it." I'm not exactly sure why 4Chan members would've been Googling the character itself, unless it was some kind of subversive statement, but either way, the Blogoscoped commenter said the 4Chan post has now been removed.
Another theory has to do with the symbol's original meaning (Wikipedia says the Sanskrit noun "svastika" means "meaning any lucky or auspicious object"). Dan at tdaxp points out that if you actually search the character, you get a list of results in Chinese: "A little thought," he writes, "reveals why. The swastika is a traditional Chinese good-luck character, the Olympics are coming up, and good luck is on the Chinese mind." Dan points to the translation of the Chinese Wikipedia page on 'Wan.'
The Times also reports that Google has apologized for the swastika appearing in the first place.

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